So ultimately this thread is useless. Unless his name is known, it doesn’t stop anyone continuing to be ripped off.

Are they? I didn’t think they were common but there’s a fair number in the US and Australia (five airworthy?), at least one or two in Europe – about normal for a wartime type with limited civil use, I’d have thought.

By rare I meant the only one in the UK.

No Morris Minor

There’s a man who doesn’t know his motoring history!
The original Morris Minor (1929 – 1934) was a very British design , the first ever £100 car and went on to spawn a very popular family of MG sports cars , the original MG Midget.

The report said: “The absence of a formal post-flight debrief and formal written record resulted in the balance tabs, attached to the elevators of the aircraft, being adjusted”

That sounds like un recorded work to me.

Rgds Cking

That to me says the pilot asked the groundcrew to adjust the trim tabs, but didn’t write up a snag.
The groundcrew adjusted the tabs, but because the snag wasn’t written down anywhere, they adjusted it the wrong way.
I’d have said the ground crew would have written up the work correctly, otherwise there’d be no record of them of the moving the tabs the wrong way.

This is a classic human factors issue.

None could at first, not sure now. I would think the remaining fleet of Kilo model as well as the Julliet have the capability.

Simple answer is yes.
‘K’s have a fixed probe, (modded for the Falklands), and ‘J’s have a removable probe.

A very good example of a very smokey aircraftthat still in widespread service is the good old C-130. The newer ‘J’ models are ok, but all the old ones smoke like a nervous beagle!

There was an artists impression knocking round of a C-130 on twin floats, I don’t think it ever got built though.

http://www.dougronan.com/ontario/images/OSAinteresting_floatplane_pictures.htm